Hi I am Kev, my wife Belinda and I run Innovative Teaching Ideas. We love to learn, and now have three little learners to guide through life. Above all we would love to hear your feedback and thoughts around our products and can make resources to meet your needs.
Hi I am Kev, my wife Belinda and I run Innovative Teaching Ideas. We love to learn, and now have three little learners to guide through life. Above all we would love to hear your feedback and thoughts around our products and can make resources to meet your needs.
Categorizing words doesn’t come naturally to kids, but this cute, high-resolution poster set will help them properly use and make sense of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech.
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If kids can make good grammar second nature, they will be well prepared for junior high writing. Help them get a head start by adding this useful, easy to comprehend poster set to your wall. The nine posters cover:
Nouns
Verbs
Pronouns
Adjectives
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections
Adverbs
This set is our junior version and is designed for children under ten. If you’re working with kids ten and up, we also have a senior edition available in our store. We are giving you these PDF images in high-resolution so you can scale them to any size with no pixilation or quality loss.
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Your students will absolutely ❤️ LOVE ❤️ these watercolor ALPHABET POSTERS. They will greatly assist your students to learn their letters and alphabet. They are perfectly suited for Preschool, Kindergarten and Early Years classrooms.
This pack includes 52 POSTERS that each contain a letter and pictures that start with the given letter. Be sure to check out the preview images for greater clarity.
** PLEASE NOTE THIS IS THE WHITE BACKGROUND SET. IF YOU ARE AFTER THE WATERCOLOR BACKGROUND VERSIONS CLICK HERE**
This collection includes a white background with both a CURSIVE and BLOCK PRINT font.
The artwork by “Artbrush by Erin” is exclusive to Innovative Teaching Ideas. Be sure to check out more of her great work.
Your students will absolutely ❤️ LOVE ❤️ these watercolor ALPHABET POSTERS. They will greatly assist your students to learn their letters and alphabet. They are perfectly suited for Preschool, Kindergarten and Early Years classrooms.
This pack includes 52 POSTERS that each contain a letter and pictures that start with the given letter. Be sure to check out the preview images for greater clarity.
** PLEASE NOTE THIS IS THE FULL COLOR BACKGROUND SET. IF YOU ARE AFTER THE WHITE BACKGROUND VERSIONS CLICK HERE**
This collec tion includes a white background with both a CURSIVE and BLOCK PRINT font.
The artwork by “Artbrush by Erin” is exclusive to Innovative Teaching Ideas. Be sure to check out more of her great work.
Spelling = frustration for a lot of kids, but it doesn’t have to! This editable Bloom's Spelling Activity Matrix, PowerPoint, and task card set means no prep for you and fun, fast learning for your students.
We have aligned this matrix to Bloom’s Taxonomy as well as Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences. By following the matrix, students take control of their own learning and decide which activities they will do. It addresses all aspects of spelling in language that students of all ages can understand, so it’s not just for kids - ESL teachers can just as easily make this a go-to resource.
This matrix will help your students discover how to use their spelling words effectively and creatively. This download contains a PDF version and an editable Word document that you can modify for any age or audience.
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Capitalize on the Pokémon craze with this fun, engaging icebreaker! This is a no prep required activity - just print, hand it out, and give your kids a great back to school activity to kick off the year.
In this task, your students will create a custom Pokémon card that is all about THEM. This will give them the opportunity to tell you about their special talents, goals, and favourite things in life, all while developing their public speaking confidence and creative skills.
If you’re familiar with Pokémon, then you know what the cards look like. This activity gives you two options based on these cards: a back-to-back card, or a one page sheet with key details.
Full instructions come attached, including instructions on how to download the free 'Pokémon' font. This activity is also bundled as both a PDF and a completely editable version that you can modify to suit any group.
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Never worry about your wall again! With over 120 high-resolution, vibrant posters covering every major English concept from grades K-7, you will have a valuable reference for your students to refer to all year.
We created these easy-to-understand, attractive posters to work with any elementary through junior high curriculum worldwide, and can be a go-to tool for keeping on track with Common Core standards. As a resource that will be front and center in your classroom, we knew it was important for them to capture students’ attention. So, we hired professional graphic artists to put these together. It was worth it – they look amazing. And they aren’t just for kids, either; ESL teachers love them.
For a complete table of contents, check the preview file. Some of our major topics include:
8 Elements of Effective Writing (2 Variations)
Parts of Speech Including: Nouns, Adverbs, Interjections, Conjunctions,
Prepositions, Pronouns, and Verbs,
26 Letters of the Alphabet in Victorian Modern Cursive Handwriting
24 Synonyms for Commonly Used Words
8 Poster Set Outlining the Key Elements of Writing Narratives
10 Poster Set Covering Colours (Colors for those of you in the U.S. )
8 Poster Set - Homonyms, Homographs and Homophones
The Writing Process Diagram
Months of the Year, Seasons, and Days of the Week for Young Writers
Visual: Let's Learn the Alphabet
Parts of a Paragraph
Alternate Parts of Speech Posters
Sounding out Words Chart
First 100 Most Commonly Used Words
Second 100 Most Commonly Used Words
Understanding Punctuation
Understanding Vowels
And much more!
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Contains 24 different Emoji used as writing prompts to spark some excellent story writing in you classroom.
Just simply print out the emoji included and present them to you students.
Each strip includes a Written Prompt and Emoji Prompts based on characters, setting and plot.
You can alter this task in a multitude of ways as you see fit.
Teach your students to independently check their own narrative / story writing with these beautiful checklists and rubric.
These editable checklists are specifically for narratives or story writing. We will be creating more for other writing genres in the near future.
There are three age variations in the bundle for Junior (Ages 5 - 7), Middle (7 - 11) and Senior (11 - 15). Each bundle contains both a student checklist for independent assessment and a student / teacher rubric for conferencing. Check the preview for a visual example.
Each age group has been stylised and written to appeal to different age groups.
With six to a page you can easily print these out and distribute to students an re use them over and over.
Best of all they are completely editable if you wish to change any element of it.
Give your students the tools they need for writing great stories.
Ease the writing process, turn your students into skilled self-editors, and give yourself a quick grading tool with our easy-to-use, fully-editable writing checklists.
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If you’re teaching narrative and story writing, these checklists and rubrics will give your students direction and clear goals to help them successfully express themselves. Each handout contains a student checklist for independent assessment and a student/teacher rubric for conferencing. With six checklists to a page, you can quickly print and distribute them as they are, or edit them to suit your specific needs.
We split this bundle into three age levels: Junior (ages 5-7), Middle (ages 7-11), and Senior (ages 11-15). Additionally, we stylized and worded each level to appeal to each age group. We are currently developing more checklists for other writing styles – if you buy this now, you can get those for free upon release by re-downloading this pack.
This is an effective yet simple tool to help your students develop into great writers with great habits, and will undoubtedly become a go-to reference throughout the year, as it has for the teachers who developed it.
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You are getting the 25 MOST COMMON VERBS constructed into beautiful caterpillar CLASSROOM DISPLAY / WORD WALL or a really fun IRREGULAR VERB MATCHING GAME You could use it for both..
The game is a simple matching game (Construct a verb Catepillar - TAKE- TAKES - TAKING - TOOK - TAKEN ) or a classroom display.
Each caterpillar is made up of
- The Root Verb ie: TAKE
- Plural Form ie: TAKES
- Past Tense form ie: TOOK
- Past Participle ie: TAKEN
AS WELL AS A BLANK TO CREATE YOUR OWN VERB.
This resource is can also be downloaded as a completely editable package you can adapt for any type of classroom
This "SPOOKTACULARLY" fun Halloween pack full of STEM, writing, poetry, math facts, graphing reading and more is a must have for students aged between 5 - 10
Your students will have a blast working through a selection of THIRTEEN SPOOKY activities.
- Halloween math Pixel Art Challenge x 2
- Halloween Word search x 2
- Halloween Counting Challenge Worksheet
- Halloween Graph Challenge
- Halloween Math Money Challenge Worksheet x 2
- If I was a Witch writing task
- If I was a Wizard writing task
- Halloween Writing Tasks, Templates and Prompts
All beautifully presented with amazing custom clip art.
Following the wild popularity of the Visual Writing Prompts Bundle comes **HYPOTHETICAL VISUAL ICE BREAKERS AND OPINION PROMPTS.**
Another evergreen and versatile resource with proven success with struggling or reluctant writers as well as being an excellent icebreaker for students and staff.
Everything is completely editable and absolutely ""NO PREP REQUIRED""
What you get
- Over 101 amazing photos each accompanied by a highly engaging hypothetical question for you to ponder.
- Advice and resources for students and teachers about maximising the bundles use in literacy other areas fo the curriculum.
- Teaching and assessment resources tailored to hypothetical questions.
The resource is broken into 5 unique areas
- What If?
- Icebreakers
- Would you rather?
- Hmmm??? That's a tough one
- Tough questions for young adults.
This resource is ever expanding, and as such you will receive all future upgrade for free.
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POPULAR PRODUCTS FROM INNOVATIVE TEACHING IDEAS
FULL YEAR VISUAL WRITING PROMPTS BUNDLE
110 Reading Activities Bundle
TEACHING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES & STEM
POETRY POWER PACK
GOOGLE SEARCH LIKE A BOSS
You are getting 101 WACKY WORD PUZZLES. These are an excellent NO PREP activity that can be used in ENGLISH, as an ICEBREAKER, a test of CRITICAL THINKING or just a FUN ACTIVITY for students and teachers of all ages.
These puzzles will challenge your critical thinking and logic to determine common phrases. Some are really simple and straightforward others will challenge you.
These are an excellent resource for students in grade 5 and up, and can be done INDEPENDENTLY as a silent test, or as a COLLABORATIVE problem solving task for the whole class.
We have bundled together the webs most complete collection of Wacky Word challenges and HERE'S WHAT YOU GET.
- 202 Beautifully presented Wacky Wordies PowerPoint Slides with questions and answers.
- A paper based test of 101 Wacky Wordies for a silent test scenario
- Wacky wordies flash cards that can be cut out and used as a game or any literacy activity.
What engages kids even more than listening to a good story? ☀️PARTICIPATING IN IT!☀️ That’s what they’ll be doing with AESOP'S FABLE POWER PACK, which offers a COMPLETE, NO-PREP UNIT.
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This HUGE BUNDLE offers a mix of hands-on, printable, and digital media resources. By the time you have finished this pack, your students won’t just be able to READ and COMPREHEND fables, but will also be WRITING their own unique fables with structure and purpose. That’s why this is one of the best reviewed products we have to offer – it keeps kids excited and engaged for over a week as you work through the following areas:
✔ What Is a Fable and Its Purpose?
✔ Who Is Aesop, The Father of Fables?
✔ 12 Famous Interactive Fables by Aesop (Professionally Narrated)
✔ Scripted Fable Theater - Turn These Fables into a Drama Class
✔ Deconstructing Fables for Meaning
✔ Planning and Assessment Rubrics for Writing Fables
✔ Fable Writing Workshop
✔ Character Traits Worksheets and Activities for All of Aesop's Creatures
✔ Digital and Paper Based Resources for Publishing Fables
✔ Fable Glossary and Curriculum Links.
The entire collection is provided to you in EDITABLE PowerPoint and Word formats and also available as a printable PDF eBook. Each lesson is a complete plan that eliminates your preparation time, but if you need to modify the content to suit a particular class, you can easily do so. We even hired a professional voice actor so that you can listen to these fables with your class in style!
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⚡ THE POETRY POWER PACK IS HERE ⚡
Want to make poetry FUN, ENGAGING AND RELEVANT? This poetry unit is a complete solution for teaching and learning poetry to students. ❤️ ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED ❤️, just download and start teaching in minutes.
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With four full weeks worth of work, you can either go all in or return as required throughout the school year. These aren’t just NO PREP, either – our teacher feedback has repeatedly told us these poetry activities are so clear that their students can self-study at their own pace.
We have spent over ten years compiling, refining, and classroom-testing this Poetry unit to get it to the quality that it’s at now. It has been used by teachers around the world in various formats and is now available for the first time as a complete solution to teaching poetry in your classroom in an engaging and professional manner.
Whatever you need to teach we have you covered. We’ve designed activities and lessons for 19 styles of poetry, including:
✍ Acrostic Poems
✍ Ballads
✍ Clerihew Poetry
✍ Diamante poems
✍ Epitaph
✍ Free Verse
✍ Haiku
✍ Irish Limericks
✍ Monody
✍ Monorhyme
✍ The Ode
✍ Palindromes
✍ Pantoum
✍ Quatrains
✍ Shape Poetry
✍ Concrete Poetry
✍ Sonnets and Villanelle.
For each style of poetry you will find:
✏ Visually bright, informative teaching guides designed to appeal to kids
✏ Annotated poetry samples narrated by a professional voice actor
✏ Quality external learning links and resources
✏ Individual templates to download and print in both grayscale and color
✏ Poetry Assessment Rubric to help students produce their own high quality poetry
✏ Curriculum links, including Common Core
This unique bundle of resources, activities, and media comes in a single PowerPoint with dozens of templates and documents for you and your students. You will also gain access to a PDF version with this purchase. However you use it, this packet will ensure that you easily meet Common Core Standard 10 for grades one through five.
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Take the leap in to the CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE and ditch your paper based reading logs or journals FOREVER.
This dynamic BUNDLE OF RESOURCES allows you to track and assess your students reading with far more efficiency and effectiveness than ever before.
What you get:
- A dynamic DIGITAL READING SURVEY which AUTOMATICALLY ADAPTS based upon the genre of book your students are reading and what point of the text they are up to
- A pre-written LETTER FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS explaining how it all works and the clear benefits it offers teachers, students and parents.
- A set of POSTRS AND BOOKMARKS matched to your class reading log so you kids can access this ANYTIME, ANYWHERE on ANY DEVICE
- A VIDEO TUTORIALexplaining how to edit, customize and deliver this to parents and students with ease, as well as how to sort, filter and manage your student data.
EVERY ELEMENT OF THIS RESOURCE IS COMPLETELY EDITABLE. ---
IT IS READY TO GO NO PREP REQUIRED OR YOU CAN TAILOR IT EXACTLY TO YOUR NEEDS BY FOLLOWING OUR SIMPLE TUTORIAL VIDEO.
This bright and beautiful caterpillar classroom display offers you numerous learning opportunities across all curriculum areas.
You are getting a FULLY EDITABLE POWERPOINT caterpillar display in a variety of presentation options.
These can be used for
WORD WALLS
SIGHT WORDS
MATH DISPLAYS
GENERAL CLASSROOM DISPLAYS
ANYTHING YOU WANT It's editable remember!!
It's all here - Just download and print.
Get your English students fascinated with writing through this engaging pack of visual writing prompts! ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED, just download and start teaching in minutes.
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2019 UPDATE: Just added over 200 DIGITAL Visual Prompt graphic organizers for 1:1 / BYOD / Google Classroom Users. *PLUS* 120 printable visual writing tasks for the classroom or homework. We have upgraded both the digital and paper based content.
This versatile bundle of resources will open up your students’ imaginations as they learn about observing details, writing with precision, and using figurative language. Best of all, this pack contains one photo for every day of the school year. Instead of scouring the Internet for appropriate photos and spending hours every week building your own activities, you can finish your entire year’s writing preparation with a single click.
Here’s what you get:
Over 370 breathtaking, high-resolution photos selected to inspire thought and creativity for a variety of writing tasks.
40 weekly Snapshot writing activities to ensure that students of any age and ability can respond to the images with direction and purpose.
200+ Digital Graphic Organizers with awesome visual writing prompts that can be used in Google Classroom, One Note or any digital student/teacher device.
Free download of our Snapshot Writing Tool
40 Weekly Newspaper report writing prompts and activities using photos and graphic organizers.
Instructions and techniques for pairing the visuals with Snapshot Writing Tool to get the most out of your students.
Two formats: a PowerPoint presentation for large classes and a 416-page eBook for personal or small group use.
This download contains the following sections:
Weird and Wonderful
Moments of Terror
Bad 'Engrish'
Oddball
Epic Fails
Into the Wilderness
You Gotta See This
Animal Antics
What a Wonderful World
I See It But I Don't Believe It (Digitally-altered images)
Warm and Fuzzy
A Different Time
This bundle has been used by hundreds of teachers and thousands of students around the world and continues to engage students of any age and ability in writing. Check out the great reviews below!
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